Judith Anderson
Actress

Judith Anderson Net Worth

Dame Judith Anderson was a renowned Australian-born actress who had a long and successful career in theatre, television and film. She began her career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918, where she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses of her time. Anderson made her Hollywood film debut in 1933 and was nominated for an Oscar for her role in Rebecca (1940). She was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1960 and Companion of the Order of Australia in 1991 for her services to the performing arts. Anderson died at age 94 of pneumonia in 1992 in Santa Barbara, California.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day February 10, 1897
Birth Place  Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Australia
Age 122 YEARS OLD
Died On 3 January 1992(1992-01-03) (aged 94)\nSanta Barbara, California, U.S.
Birth Sign Pisces
Cause of death Pneumonia
Occupation Actress
Years active 1915–1987
Spouse(s) Benjamin Harrison Lehmann (m. 1937; div. 1939) Luther Greene (m. 1946; div. 1951)

💰 Net worth: $1.7 Million (2024)

Judith Anderson, a renowned actress and talented soundtrack artist hailing from Australia, is reportedly set to attain a net worth of around $1.7 million by the year 2024. With her remarkable performances and contributions to the entertainment industry, it comes as no surprise that she has garnered both critical acclaim and financial success. Throughout her illustrious career, Judith has captivated audiences with her exceptional acting skills and mesmerizing musical talents. Her impressive net worth is a testament to her hard work, dedication, and immense talent, establishing her as a prominent figure in the world of entertainment.

Biography/Timeline

1862

Frances Margaret Anderson was born in 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia, the youngest of four children born to Jessie Margaret (née Saltmarsh; 19 October 1862 – 24 November 1950), a former nurse, and Scottish-born James Anderson Anderson, a sharebroker and pioneering prospector.

1915

She made her professional debut (as Francee Anderson) in 1915, playing Stephanie at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, in A Royal Divorce. Leading the company was the Scottish actor Julius Knight whom she later credited with laying the foundations of her acting skills. In the company were some American actors who convinced Anderson to try her luck in the United States. She travelled to California but was unsuccessful, then moved to New York, with an equal lack of success.

1918

After a period of poverty and illness, she found work with the Emma Bunting Stock Company at the Fourteenth Street Theatre in 1918–19. She toured with other stock companies until 1922 when she made her Broadway debut in On the Stairs using her true name, Frances Anderson. One year later, she had changed her acting forename (albeit not for legal purposes) to Judith and had her first triumph with the play Cobra co-starring Louis Calhern. She toured Australia in 1927 with three plays: Tea for Three, The Green Hat and Cobra.

1930

By the early 1930s, she had established herself as one of the most prominent theatre actresses of her era and she was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. In 1931, she played the Unknown Woman in the American premiere of Pirandello's As You Desire Me, filmed the following year with Greta Garbo in the same role. This was followed by Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Luigi Chiarelli's The Mask and the Face, with Humphrey Bogart and Zoë Akins' The Old Maid from the novel by Edith Wharton, in the role later played on film by Miriam Hopkins. In 1936, Anderson played Gertrude to John Gielgud's Hamlet in a production which featured Lillian Gish as Ophelia.

1937

In 1937, she joined the Old Vic Company in London and played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier in a production by Michel Saint-Denis, at the Old Vic and the New Theatre. In 1941, she played Lady Macbeth again in New York opposite Maurice Evans in a production staged by Margaret Webster, a role she was to reprise with Evans on television, firstly in 1954 and then again in 1960 (the second version was released as a feature film in Europe).

1940

In Hollywood, her opportunities were limited to supporting character Actress work. She naturally preferred the stage in any event. In particular, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940). As the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, Judith Anderson was required to mentally torment the young bride, the "second Mrs. de Winter" (Joan Fontaine), even encouraging her to commit suicide; and taunt her husband (Laurence Olivier) with the memory of his first wife, the never-seen "Rebecca" of the title. This role led to several film appearances during the 1940s in such films as Lady Scarface (1941), Kings Row (1942), All Through the Night (1942), Otto Preminger's Laura (1944) with Gene Tierney, Ben Hecht's Specter of the Rose (1946), Jean Renoir's The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) and a particularly memorable turn as Emily Brent in René Clair's And Then There Were None (1945); she was one of the last surviving cast members of the adaption. In 1970, she appeared in A Man Called Horse.

1942

In 1942–43, she played Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters, in a production which also featured Katharine Cornell, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King and Alexander Knox. (Kirk Douglas, playing an orderly, made his Broadway debut in the production.) The production was so illustrious, it made it to the cover of Time.

1947

In 1947, she triumphed as Medea in a version of Euripides' tragedy, written by the poet Robinson Jeffers and produced by John Gielgud, who played Jason. She was a friend of Jeffers and a frequent visitor to his home "Tor House" in Carmel, California. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance. She toured in this role to Germany in 1951 and to France and Australia in 1955–56.

1948

She continued to act on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award in 1948 for her performance in the title role of Medea. Her stage and film work continued and by the 1950s she was also appearing in television productions. On the big screen, she played a golddigger in Anthony Mann's western The Furies (1950), Herodias in Salome (1953) and Memnet in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956). In 1958, Anderson played the memorable role of "Big Mama" alongside "Big Daddy" Burl Ives, in the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

1950

Anderson began an active career in television in the early 1950s, usually starring in prestigious "event" dramas such as recreating her role as Medea in 1959 and two separate productions of Macbeth in 1954 and 1960, winning the Emmy Award for both filmed performances as Lady Macbeth. Anderson was a frequent star of Hallmark Hall of Fame productions, and was featured in the TV special Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954), broadcast on all four TV networks of the time, and produced by David O. Selznick. Also in 1959, she guest starred on Wagon Train, in The Felizia Kingdom Story.

1953

In 1953, she was directed by Charles Laughton in his own adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body with a cast also featuring Raymond Massey and Tyrone Power. In 1960, she played Madame Arkadina in Chekhov's The Seagull first at the Edinburgh Festival, and then at the Old Vic, with Tom Courtenay, Cyril Luckham and Tony Britton.

1960

Anderson was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1960 and thereafter was often billed as "Dame Judith Anderson".

1970

In 1970, she realised a long-held ambition to play the title role of Hamlet on a national tour of the United States and at New York's Carnegie Hall. In 1982, she returned to Medea, this time playing the Nurse opposite Zoe Caldwell in the title role. Caldwell had appeared in a small role in the Australian tour of Medea in 1955–56. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.

1984

In her later years, she played two more prominent roles in productions that took her as far away from her Shakespearean origins as possible. In 1984, she appeared in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock as the Vulcan High Priestess T'Lar. That same year, she commenced a three-year stint as matriarch Minx Lockridge on the NBC serial Santa Barbara. She had professed to be a fan of the daytime genre, but after signing the contract, she complained about her lack of screen time. The highlight of her stint was when Minx tearfully revealed the horrific truth that she had switched the late Channing Capwell with Brick Wallace as a baby, preventing her illegitimate grandson from being raised as a Capwell. This resulted in her receiving a Supporting Actress Emmy Nomination although her screen time afterwards diminished to infrequent appearances. After leaving the series, she was succeeded in the role by the quarter-century younger American Actress Janis Paige.

1991

On 10 June 1991, in the Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), "in recognition of Service to the performing arts".

1992

Anderson loved Santa Barbara, California, and spent much of her life there. She died there, of pneumonia, in 1992, aged 94.

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